>I always cringe slightly when I see a headline like this on HN, imagining it feeding unfair prejudices about protected groups "Protected" by and from who? Wh

>I always cringe slightly when I see a headline like this on HN, imagining it feeding unfair prejudices about protected groups "Protected" by and from who? Whose "unfair prejudices" are really at issue here? I always cringe when scientific studies or other bits of objective reality are suppressed or downplayed because of the prejudices of people who believe that arbitrarily cobbled together groups of people by those who think they know better need to somehow "be protected". >You be you, but please remember that prejudices and confirmation bias are problems If someone has a problem with science and objective reality, that is a personal problem they should deal with, not a problem with science and objective reality. Unfortunately there is an ever-growing mentality (especially among younger people) that if objective reality is somehow offensive to one's sensibilities then objective reality should be ignored or explicitly rejected all together.